[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 105 (Thursday, May 30, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27052-27053]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-13453]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
[I.D. 051396G]
Marine Mammals; Permit No. 927 (P79I)
AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
ACTION: Receipt of application for modification.
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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that the Institute of Marine Science,
University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 (Principal
Investigators: Daniel P. Costa and Michael E. Goebel) has requested a
modification to permit no. 927.
DATES: Written comments must be received on or before July 1, 1996.
ADDRESSES: The modification request and related documents are available
for review upon written request or by appointment in the following
office(s):
Permits Division, Office of Protected Resources, NMFS, 1315 East-
West
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Highway, Room 13130, Silver Spring, MD 20910 (301/713-2289); and
Alaska Region, NMFS, P.O. Box 21668, Juneau, AK 99802-1668 (907/
586-7221).
Written data or views, or requests for a public hearing on this
request should be submitted to the Director, Office of Protected
Resources, NMFS, 1315 East-West Highway, Room 13130, Silver Spring, MD
20910. Those individuals requesting a hearing should set forth the
specific reasons why a hearing on this particular modification request
would be appropriate.
Concurrent with the publication of this notice in the Federal
Register, NMFS is forwarding copies of this application to the Marine
Mammal Commission and its Committee of Scientific Advisors.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The subject modification to permit no. 927,
issued on June 17, 1994 (59 FR 32419) is requested under the authority
of the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1361
et seq.) and the Regulations Governing the Taking and Importing of
Marine Mammals (50 CFR part 216).
Permit no. 927, as amended on July 12, 1995, authorizes the permit
holder to take northern fur seals (Callorhinus ursinus) in the
following manner: Capture, flipper tag, sample, weigh, measure, mark
and release up to 440 adult females and pups; an additional 400 male/
female pups for body composition and metabolic and energetic use
studies; accidentally kill up to 6 annually; and inadvertently harass
up to 69,080 during the conduct of these activities.
The permit holder requests authorization to: Subsample an
additional 30 pups used in the oxygen consumption and metabolic rate
study; expand the capture dates from 1 September to 1 July; obtain 100
muscle samples and 8 pelts from sub-adult animals killed in the
subsistence harvest or from other animals that die of nartural causes;
subsample an additional 30 pups in the milk intake, metabolism, growth,
condition and thermoregulation study of body composition; subsample 30
pups in the total blood volume study; and measure total blood volume in
50 adult females. No additional live animals are requested.
Dated: May 14, 1996.
Ann D. Terbush,
Chief, Permits and Documentation Division, Office of Protected
Resources, National Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 96-13453 Filed 5-29-96; 8:45 am]
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